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Floor Packet Page No. 127
Amend Article VI, CSSB 1 (House Committee Printing) by
inserting the following appropriately-numbered Rider to the
appropriation for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as
follows and renumbering subsequent Riders accordingly:
____. TESTING FOR MERCURY CONTAMINATION. Out of the amounts
appropriated above in Strategy A.1.2 (Water Assessment and
Planning), $750,000 in FY 2006 and $750,000 in FY 2007 shall be used
for the purpose of testing for mercury contamination of the waters
of this State by the testing of the tissue of fish and shellfish
living in State waters. The Commission should give priority to
testing bodies of fresh water and salt water that have not
previously been tested for mercury contamination by any state or
federal agency, but where the is probable cause that mercury
contamination may have occurred. The Commission shall share the
results of the testing with the Department of State Health Services
for purposes of considering the appropriate warnings to the public
of found mercury contamination that the Department is authorized by
general law to issue.